Academic

This page supports the Enterprising Women programme which I run at the University of Edinburgh and which was developed by myself and Janet Wilkinson.

Here’s where I’ll post useful links and any ideas which connect to the themes that we looked at on the three days. For those of you who haven’t attended the course, the themes are:

creativity

comfort with cash

control

Creativity

For creativity, I’m going to be lazy and link you to the existing pages on this site which cover this topic as well as the site I developed from the original Girls Geeks workshop which was the “grandmother” of Enterprising Women.

Comfort with Cash

(both pretty cheap on Kindle and highly recommended although best not to read in public as there are lots of “D’Oh – I do that!” moments in them both)

We looked briefly at the Research Professional site which you can use to search for funding opportunities. If you access the site from within the University you should be able to search without a login.

If the University mystifies you as much as it did me when I worked there and you’re a postdoc, why not go to the next Get Connected event in January and find out exactly who does what.

We talked about Athena Swan as a facilitator for improving equality but also as a potential opportunity to demonstrate leadership if you get involved in this in your school or institute. Contact your local champion once you’ve got to grips with the ethos of the award.

Many of you were keen to make more of social media, LinkedIn in particular, but not sure where to start. There are lots of guides including the excellent ones on LinkedIn itself. Here are a few:

I mentioned a guide I’d seen which helped people make the transition from Facebook to LinkedIN – I haven’t been able to find this on the web so it may be very out of date, but here is a copy of it from my archive.

Control

New adventures

After nearly 17 years of consultancy, 2017 will bring some changes to Shinton Consulting. From January I'll become the Head of Researcher Development at the University of Edinburgh, as part of the Institute of Academic Development.

The website will stay as it is and I'll update it for the next academic year to support the workshops and events that I had committed to before taking on the Edinburgh role. From 2017/8 this may become a place where I continue to add content but it is likely to be more focused on my role and the experiences I have.

I will continue to work with most of my clients either as researcher development colleagues or collaborating as institutions. If you have found this site looking for researcher development consultancy do still get in touch as I have a great network of people who I'm happy to recommend. From late 2017 I'll include links to a range of people who can support institutions and individuals.

Thanks to everyone who I've worked with at Shinton Consulting since 2000 and good luck with your own careers and research.